BILL NUMBER: SB 141	CHAPTERED  09/27/00

	CHAPTER   710
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 27, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 25, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 29, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 25, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 5, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 15, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 1, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 6, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Schiff
   (Principal coauthor:  Assembly Member Machado)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Costa, Figueroa, Johnston, and Poochigian)
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Ashburn, Corbett, Dutra, Florez,
Scott, and Wildman)

                        JANUARY 4, 1999

   An act relating to parks and recreation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 141, Schiff.  Park and recreation facilities.
   Existing law provides for the Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban
Open-Space and Recreation Program Act, administered by the Department
of Parks and Recreation, which provides for annual grants to cities,
counties, and districts for recreational purposes.
   This bill would  provide for the allocation to specified cities
and a district of funds appropriated to the department for that
purpose in the annual Budget Act, from a source other than a
prescribed fund.  The bill would require the department to allocate
those funds using the same criteria, dollar rate, and procedures as
it employs to allocate funds to certain local agencies eligible for
funding under the block grant portion of the Roberti-Z'berg-Harris
Urban Open-Space and Recreation Program Act.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  (a) The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean
Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000 (The Villaraigosa-Keeley
Act) (Proposition 12 of the March 7, 2000, primary election; Chapter
1.692 (commencing with Section 5096.300) of Division 5 of the Public
Resources Code) provides fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) in
supplemental funds to cities and districts with populations under
200,000 in urbanized counties with populations of 200,000 or greater
pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 5096.310 and subdivision (b)
of Section 5096.336 of the Public Resources Code.  Subdivision (g) of
Section 5096.310 of the Public Resources Code provides two hundred
million dollars ($200,000,000) in grants to cities, counties, and
districts for the acquisition, development, rehabilitation, and
restoration of park and recreation areas and facilities pursuant to
the Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and Recreation Program Act
(Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 5620) of Division 5 of the
Public Resources Code).
   (b) Of the 444 cities and districts in urbanized counties
throughout the state, all but five cities and one district (Stockton,
Bakersfield, Fremont, Glendale, and Riverside and the Hayward Area
Recreation and Park District) qualify for supplemental per capita
funding, as either "small cities" and "districts" having a population
under 200,000 or heavily "urbanized areas" having a population over
300,000, as eligible cities under the Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban
Open-Space and Recreation Program Act.  This inequity was not
intended by the drafters of the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water,
Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000 or by the
Legislature.
   (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that the omitted five
cities and one district receive supplemental per capita funding on
the same basis as eligible cities with populations over 300,000
persons under the Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and
Recreation Program Act.
   (d) Funds shall be allocated to the Cities of Stockton,
Bakersfield, Fremont, Glendale, and Riverside and the Hayward Area
Recreation District when funds are appropriated to the Department of
Parks and Recreation for that purpose, from a source other than the
Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal
Protection Bond Fund, in the annual Budget Act.  The department shall
allocate these funds using the same criteria, dollar rate, and
procedures as it employs to allocate funds to local agencies with
populations over 300,000 and eligible for funding under the block
grant portion of the Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and
Recreation Program Act.  Any amount in excess of the amount necessary
to make that allocation shall revert to the General Fund.
   (e) Funds appropriated for the purposes of subdivision (d) shall
be available for encumbrance for three years after the date upon
which funds first become available for encumbrance or, as allowed
under Section 16304 of the Government Code, whichever period is
longer.
   (f) Disbursements in liquidation of encumbrances shall be made
before the expiration of five years following the last day the
appropriation is available for encumbrance pursuant to subdivision
(e) or, in accordance with Section 16304.1 of the Government Code,
whichever period is longer.
